The taste of contemporaneity: is the west kitsch?

IF 1.5 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/14797585.2022.2097880

A. Castelli, Barbara Sonzogni

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Abstract

ABSTRACT As the twenty-first century begins, Benjamin’s aura as the quality of an authentic-art-object might be outdated, but the notion of kitsch remains essential in a post-Warholian world. The following discussion is an attempt to assess Western contemporaneity. By using a few examples, so to dissect problems into their smallest components, I suggest that the current popularity of kitsch inclinations and behaviours in Western societies are not a means to resist cultural and aesthetic elitism, but an implication of widespread bad taste.

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当代品味:西方是媚俗的吗?

随着二十一世纪的到来，本雅明作为一件真正的艺术品的光环可能已经过时了，但在后沃霍尔时代，媚俗的概念仍然是必不可少的。下面的讨论试图评估西方的当代性。通过使用几个例子，将问题分解为最小的组成部分，我认为当前西方社会流行的媚俗倾向和行为不是抵制文化和审美精英主义的手段，而是普遍存在的不良品味的暗示。

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Journal for Cultural Research CULTURAL STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： JouJournal for Cultural Research is an international journal, based in Lancaster University"s Institute for Cultural Research. It is interested in essays concerned with the conjuncture between culture and the many domains and practices in relation to which it is usually defined, including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society, art and the sacred. Culture is no longer, if it ever was, singular. It denotes a shifting multiplicity of signifying practices and value systems that provide a potentially infinite resource of academic critique, investigation and ethnographic or market research into cultural difference, cultural autonomy, cultural emancipation and the cultural aspects of power.